You can read Korn’s website and decide for yourself whether he fits the DI’s description of the culprit. Personally, I think the forensic skills of the gang of IDists have failed spectacularly, once again.

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Well… umm… hrm… obviously he’s really an eeevil ‘Darwinist’… and just posing as a raving Christian zealot with a website full of wacky fonts, random capitalized phrases, and screeds on creationism, weird fundy blends of Christianity and Judaism and… ummm…

Okay. I don’t even know what half that shit is supposed to be…

But the point is: obviously it’s an eeevilutionist setup. I mean, no one really believes stuff this wacky, right?

The Boulder police have been criticized in the past for not being the brightest bulbs on the tree. Some people claim they botched the Joan-Benet Ramsey child killer case so badly that the killer will never be caught.

I used to live in Boulder, and some right-wing nut from Littleton used to come up and stand on a street corner with a sandwich-board saying “Hillary killed Ron Brown” and other non sequitors. This kook’s “9/11 was an inside job!” rant is reminiscent, but I don’t remember the sandwich-board guy having a beard.

projection continues to be the theme of the millenium so far. “we are crazy, intolerant, fucked-up fundamentalists, therefore THE PEOPLE WE DISAGREE WITH are crazy, intolerant, fucked-up fundamentalist ATHIESTS! We’ll do anything to intimidate and frighten people, therefore they will too! It all makes sense!”

Even the Vatican doesn’t believe in the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. It was determined by carbon dating to be a medieval forgery. What a dim bulb this guy is.

But of course some believers never give up. Would you believe that a peer-review journal published a paper in 2006 claiming that all the isotope dating is inaccurate because the samples were all taken from patched portions of the shroud, and the true, older date of the shroud can be established using fibers of questionable provenance using the well-established vanillin method?

Korn claims it was disappointment with Zionist social policy that drove him to Christianity, but it sounds like it was the seder hishtalshelus (“order of development” or “order of evolution”, a dynamic process of continual creation) that flipped his wig.

Not just a kook, but a dangerous kook. That DI would describe him as non-religious is… It’s hard to find the words, but I guess it’s fitting DI would say that’s non-religious.

And, seriously, I think he’s dangerous. His words were quite specific. He’s threatening. If they can positively link forensic evidence to him, I think they should arrest him. Those were serious threats.

Arrest him for what? Stalking. Making credible threats. Among other things. He was going to do it.

If Cho taught us anything, it’s that you don’t wait to do something. When you have a chance to stop someone, do it.

I note CU officials have not yet named a suspect. The reporters got the name from ‘sources close to the case’, who apparently only observed how the letters were signed. A good guess that Korn did it? Yes. Beyond a reasonable doubt? No.

Korn reminds me of one of our new weekly protesters at a Planned Parenthood clinic in suburban Philadelphia. She’s a vegan pagan who, ‘though opposing abortion and family planning, takes serious issue with her fellow protesters who are all either fundamentalist Christians or Roman Catholics. The lot mix it up so heatedly in deep theological discussions that they often forget why their on the sidewalk in front of the clinic. She and Korn could have some great fights!

Korn reminds me of one of our new weekly protesters at a Planned Parenthood clinic in suburban Philadelphia. She’s a vegan pagan who, ‘though opposing abortion and family planning, takes serious issue with her fellow protesters who are all either fundamentalist Christians or Roman Catholics. The lot mix it up so heatedly in deep theological discussions that they often forget why they’re on the sidewalk in front of the clinic. She and Korn could have some great fights!

Brownian and Matt Penfold: Group hug time (don’t worry, I’m cute but married). :) Since I’m so clearly a PZ “acolyte” I suppose I can join in here, too, eh?

I can only assume that Lago is trying to say “innocent until proven guilty,” which is fine. However, the ol’ “ask him if he did it” technique of interrogation went the way of the dodo when it was pretty much proven not to work. Generally speaking, police will not release a suspect’s name until enough evidence has been gathered to charge said person with a crime, so at this point we have no choice but to assume that the Boulder police have done just that. I do agree with Caledonian, though…we should wait at least until the evidence is revealed before commenting further.

Generally speaking, police will not release a suspect’s name until enough evidence has been gathered to charge said person with a crime, so at this point we have no choice but to assume that the Boulder police have done just that.

Read the article. Does it say Boulder Police, or any similar authority provided the name?

Article:

CU officials won’t name a suspect, but numerous sources close to the case say the letters – as well as a barrage of threatening e-mails – were signed ‘Michael Korn.’

[snip]

Cmdr. Brad Wiesley of the CU Police Department says a detective is on the case. CUPD is investigating whether the note’s author and deliverer are the same person.

Why would they be investigating ‘whether the note’s author and deliverer are the same person’ if they had enough evidence to charge Korn?
Why would the reporter say they got the name from ‘sources close to the case’ if they got it from police?
If police have enough evidence to charge Korn, why does the article not say so?

At this point, we cannot assume the police have enough info to charge Korn, or that they released his name

Leaks in cases like this are too often simply fiction (the entrenching tool that was the murder weapon of Nicole Simpson springs to mind) for much stock to be put into them. The local press is going to trumpet any bit of innuendo as confirmed by “those close to the case”.
We can, however, be entirely justified in skewering Korn as a deluded jackass, and making fun of him in the most delightfully mocking ways.

Wow!,
This guy reminds me of a nutjob I ran across in the early eighties. There were four things important in his life. Number one: he was a crackhead. Number two: he liked to say that he was a Rabbi Kahane (radical US/Israeli nut job that promoted Muslim murder) bodyguard. Number three: he was a ‘bounty hunter’. And lastly he thought he was a quick draw artist. It’s odd that his name immediately made me think of this guy, whose name I cannot remember. I don’t know if it’s the same guy, probably not, but the creepiness of his website language is the same that raised the hairs on the back of my neck. Boulder police will also get a heads up on if this is the same guy

“Well… umm… hrm… obviously he’s really an eeevil ‘Darwinist’… and just posing as a raving Christian zealot with a website full of wacky fonts, random capitalized phrases, and screeds on creationism, weird fundy blends of Christianity and Judaism and… ummm…”

Okay, I need some sort of confirmation that the dude in the soldieringodsarmy videos isn’t doing a wonderful impression of Bush. It is exactly the same as every press conference our illegal tyrant has given since his taking of power.

Okay, saw a little more of his stuff. It is funny, but I live in Florida, and I hear this sort of thing all the time, except with honesty and hate. A white hot hate that is angry at everything different than itself, especially the blacks and the literate.

Holy fleakin’ cr@p! I think I saw that guy at Barnes and Noble a couple weeks ago. He was sitting in the cafe section chatting with another guy making plans about spreading god’s word or religious outreach or something. I took notice because he was wearing white robes and because he had a funny accent. I had originally thought him muslim mainly because he seemed middle eastern in feel.

I took it as par for the course at the time because seeing strange people is not uncommon in Boulder Colorado.

i like to say that adherents of darwinian mythology are descended from the apes, but not very far and not very long ago.

Really?

Well, I like to say that adherents of creationist mythology don’t even know that both apes and humans are descended from a common ancestor, but I guess that that would render your cutesy little insult moot, now, wouldn’t it?